CDL Champs is officially over, with LA Thieves putting in a dominant performance in the final tournament of the 2022 Vanguard season, beating Atlanta FaZe 5-2 in the grand final.
- LA Thieves win organization’s first Call of Duty Championship
- Octane, Kenny, Drazah, and Envoy join elite group of CoD Champs winners
- Atlanta FaZe lose second Champs grand final in three seasons
In a year with four different Major tournament winners, LA Thieves became the only team to win multiple championships with back-to-back victories.
Here’s the full rundown of what went down on Championship Weekend, including prize pool breakdown, daily results and a full recap.
CDL Champs final placements
| Placement | Team | Prize |
| 1 | LA Thieves | $1,200,000 |
| 2 | Atlanta FaZe | $650,000 |
| 3 | Seattle Surge | $320,000 |
| 4 | OpTic Texas | $160,000 |
| 5/6 | Toronto Ultra | $80,000 |
| 5/6 | New York Subliners | $80,000 |
| 7/8 | Boston Breach | $30,000 |
| 7/8 | London Royal Ravens | $30,000 |
CDL Champs 2022 bracket & fixtures
The bracket heading into Sunday was as follows:
CDL Champs 2022 Results & recap
Day 1 — Thursday, August 4
| Round | Match | Time | ||
| PST | EST | BST | ||
| Winners Round 1 | London Royal Ravens 2-3 Seattle Surge | 12PM | 3PM | 8PM |
| Winners Round 1 | LA Thieves 3-2 Boston Breach | 1.30PM | 4.30PM | 9.30PM |
| Winners Round 1 | OpTic Texas 3-2 Toronto Ultra | 3PM | 6PM | 11PM |
| Winners Round 1 | New York Subliners 2-3 Atlanta FaZe | 4.30PM | 7.30PM | 12.30AM |
Day 2 – Friday, August 5
| Round | Match | Time | ||
| PST | EST | BST | ||
| Losers Round 1 | London Royal Ravens 2-3 New York Subliners | 12PM | 3PM | 8PM |
| Losers Round 1 | Boston Breach 1-3 Toronto Ultra | 1.30PM | 4.30PM | 9.30PM |
| Winners Round 2 | Seattle Surge 2-3 Atlanta FaZe | 3PM | 6PM | 11PM |
| Winners Round 2 | LA Thieves 3-0 OpTic Texas | 4.30PM | 7.30PM | 12.30AM |
Day 3 — Saturday, August 6
| Round | Match | Time | ||
| PST | EST | BST | ||
| Losers Round 2 | Seattle Surge 3-1 Toronto Ultra | 10.30AM | 1.30PM | 6.30PM |
| Losers Round 2 | OpTic Texas 3-0 New York Subliners | 12PM | 3PM | 8PM |
| Winners Final | LA Thieves 3-1 Atlanta FaZe | 1.30PM | 4.30PM | 9.30PM |
| Losers Round 3 | OpTic Texas 1-3 Seattle Surge | 3PM | 6PM | 11PM |
| Losers Final | Seattle Surge 1-3 Atlanta FaZe | 4.30PM | 7.30PM | 12.30AM |
Day 4 — Sunday, August 7
| Round | Match | Time | ||
| PST | EST | BST | ||
| Grand Final | LA Thieves 5-2 Atlanta FaZe | 12PM | 3PM | 8PM |
The 2022 Call of Duty Championship weekend started with a bang. All four opening matchups went the distance, two of which ended with round 11 showdowns.
A server outage delayed the second match between the Boston Breach and the Los Angeles Thieves for more than an hour but once the action got underway, it proved to be worth the wait.
Friday’s matches didn’t offer as much in the way of close games, with Toronto Ultra comfortably seeing off Boston, while LA Thieves backed up their “overrated” comments and destroyed a lackluster OpTic.
Elsewhere, FaZe rose to knock Seattle into the Losers bracket and London Royal Ravens went home following a narrow defeat to NYSL.
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After Seattle dispatched of Toronto in a quickfire 3-1, another delay affected the highly-anticipated OpTic vs NYSL matchup after the GreenWall took a 2-0 lead. Once things got ironed out, OpTic sent the Subliners packing with a swift 3-0.
FaZe suffered a setback in their bid to repeat as Champs, failing into the losers bracket after losing 3-1 to LA Thieves. They’d ultimately play Seattle in the Losers Bracket finals after the Surge dominated OpTic in a 3-1 series.
Atlanta held strong against the Surge’s tidal wave, winning 3-1 and securing a rematch with LA in the Grand Finals.
Their momentum was shortlived, however. They went 4-0 down in the Grand Final to LA Thieves, struggling to get anything going and simply being outclassed by Thieves, even in the hardpoint maps where they got off to much stronger starts.
The foundations of a comeback started, bringing it back to 4-2 in the series, before they failed to close out on Tuscan Search and Destroy, failing to close out the map from a 5-3 lead and handing LA Thieves the map and series wins, as well as the Championship trophy.
WINNING IN GAME MOMENT FOR @LAThieves! Congrats again to all players for winning their first World Championship #CDLChamps pic.twitter.com/YF080qapUx
— Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) August 7, 2022
With the 2022 season now over, be sure to keep your ears and eyes peeled for any news on the 2023 Modern Warfare 2 season!